Originally Posted by
Itsajob
People in Hays can drive 2.5 hours to ICT. People in CLL drive to IAH........ Hays is so small that it could potentially be dropped. My relatives live in a small town about twice the size of Hays and they drive 2 hours to a bigger city if they need to fly.
What you’re not factoring in is that HYS serves the whole northwestern part of KS so many on the flight already drove 1.5-2 hrs from an even smaller town to get to HYS to fly. Their only other UA option is to drive 3-4 hours to DEN, or they can drive the 1-2 hours to GCK and fly on AA. Before HYS they would go to GCK and the business went to AA.